This season's version of the Coilers is even worse than last season's team in terms of team defense.

More turnovers than a bakery! Although Skinner is not a good goalie, I would not put all the blame on him for allowing the 12 goals in the past 2 games.

Defencemen like Darnell Nurse and Evan Bouchard are just not good enough.

Their defence sucks! You really wonder if McDavid is gonna want to sign an extension with this team instead of becoming a free agent one day.

There are a couple of key injuries like Ekholm but yah, their weakest link is goalie, hands down. Don't know how Draisatal and McDavid puts up with the sieve. How the hell you gonna win anything with a guy whose % and stats are like that??

Ask nurse 9.5 million. Lol

Mcdavid and leon didn't do anything in game 2 when LA kept on pressuring. Leon going to be making 14M next yr as well.

Can't blame goalie making 2.60M and 1M respectively.

Skinner is like a Luongo, albeit Luongo was an infinitely better goalie

But they are the same in that you never know what’s going on in their head, and once they let in a shitty goal, fans and players alike are holding their breathe as to how they will respond.

Skinner has never won anything or proven he can overcome those demons though so you let 2 bad ones in, the team has zero confidence a save can he made in a crucial time moving forward

Oh Luongo, I remember when we made him captain for a few years, the only modern team to do so, fucking retarded :lol

Laffs win putting a reverse sweep in play!

I would be happy to watch Marchand crush the Laffs

lol, yuck. Leafs are actually going to advance to the 2nd round.

They advanced last year to 2nd round, 'slayed that dragon' but only to lose in 2nd round ... so we shall see.

That's why I keep saying: There's only one Dragon, and that's the cup.

All these shitter teams being happy with Slaying the Dragon in the first or second rounds are destined for failure

They got Sam Bennett AND Brad Marchand. Both are pest and hard to play against.

If Barkovs game is like last year, he can shut down the leafs top line.

Barkov got absolutely destroyed tonight, see if it has long term effects

Strange happenings with the World Junior Players Sex Assault Trial

Judge declares mistrial in London hockey case

https://www.tsn.ca/hockey-canada/jud...case-1.2295137

London, Ont. – Justice Maria Carroccia has declared a mistrial in the trial of five former members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team.

A mistrial is a trial that is not successfully completed due to a significant error or problem that prevents a fair verdict from being reached.

Justice Carroccia ruled that media may report on her ruling but may not publish more details about the decision. A media consortium is challenging that publication ban.

A new trial is scheduled to begin later today with a new jury of 14 members.